Dianthus hyssopifoliusL.

WFO wfo-0000643675 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dianthus hyssopifolius, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. a Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199558779
Dianthus hyssopifolius, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. b Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170447533
Dianthus hyssopifolius, photographed by Darío Estraviz López
fig. c Darío Estraviz López, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156432520
Dianthus hyssopifolius, photographed by preinzi
fig. d preinzi, CC0 1.0 / obs. 155016215
Dianthus hyssopifolius, photographed by Stephanie G. Williams
fig. e Stephanie G. Williams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154570911
Dianthus hyssopifolius, photographed by bigayon
fig. f bigayon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154155410
Dianthus hyssopifolius, photographed by saydelah
fig. g saydelah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151843540
Dianthus hyssopifolius, photographed by Francesco Cecere
fig. h Francesco Cecere, CC0 1.0 / obs. 149936325

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Dianthus hyssopifolius is native: France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland FranceItalyPortugalSpainSwitzerland
Native distribution of Dianthus hyssopifolius, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
France FRA EUROPE
Italy ITA
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 1,062 in flower of 1,064 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Dianthus hyssopifolius observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 1,062 of 1,064 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dianthus acuminatus Tausch
  • Dianthus alpestris Sternb.
  • Dianthus ambiguus Salisb.
  • Dianthus condensatus Kil.
  • Dianthus controversus Gaudin
  • Dianthus eynensis Sennen
  • Dianthus gallicus Pers.
  • Dianthus monspeliacus L.
  • Dianthus monspeliacus subsp. gallicus (Pers.) M.Laínz & Muñoz Garm
  • Dianthus monspessulanus var. alpestris (Sternb.) Arcang.
  • Dianthus monspessulanus var. alpicola W.D.J.Koch
  • Dianthus monspessulanus var. brevifolius Ser.
  • Dianthus monspessulanus var. jacetanus P.Monts.
  • Dianthus monspessulanus var. plumosus (DC. ex Spreng.) Gaudin
  • Dianthus monspessulanus var. suaveolens (Spreng.) Trevir.
  • Dianthus odoratissimus Vest ex Rchb.
  • Dianthus oreades Balb. ex Nyman
  • Dianthus plumosus DC. ex Spreng.
  • Dianthus saxatilis Pers.
  • Dianthus seguieri subsp. controversus (Gaudin) Arcang.
  • Dianthus seguieri var. controversus (Gaudin) W.D.J.Koch
  • Dianthus sprengelii G.Don
  • Dianthus suaveolens Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.